Gange or snood for fish-hooks and other purposes



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H. H. MANSFIELD.

GANGB 0R sNooD PoR FISH BOOKS AND OTHER PURPOSES.

No. 341,257. Patented May 4, 1886.

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H. H. MANSFIELD.

GANGE 0R SNOOD FOB. FISHv HOOKS AND OTHER PURPOSES.

No. 341,25. Patented May 4, 1886.

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UNITED STATES HORACE I-I. MANSFIELD, OF

'PATENT f OFFICE.

CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GANGIE OR SNOOD FOR -FlSH-HOOKS AND OTHER PURPOSES.

SPECIFECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,257, dated May 4, 1886.

l l Application filed May/27,1885. Serial No. 166,886. (Noinodel.) 4

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE H. MANSFIELD, of Canton, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ganges or Snoods for Fish-Hooks and other Purposes, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

rlhis improvedv snood or gauge is a braided one, and the method of its production,which is to constitute the subiectmatter of another application for Letters Patent, is as follows: First, the several strands which are to compose the braided snood or gauge. are doubled over, andthe so doubled-over portion secured or held, and as so secured braided about and along the length and beyond the same till the desired length of line for the snood or gauge is thus secured, when the braided strands are then doubled over and the unbraided strands in continuation thereof are braided around them sufficiently to connect them therewith, the whole producing a length 'of braided strands having at each end a loop, the one loop to receive a ish-liook and the other to make the attachment of the gauge or snood to the fish-line. The production of this snood or gauge can be accomplished by hand or machine, and one form and arrangement or mechanism therefor, which is to constitute another application for Letters Patent, and is only embraced herein for amore intelligible understanding, is in Substance as follows: First, a clamp suitable to clamp the fish-hook which is to have a gauge or snood applied to it and connected to and suspended from the takeup mechanism of abi'aidingmacliine; second, of a stationary but vertically adjustable platform to support said. clamp, and which has a slitted opening in it to Areceive the shank or stem of the hook, and is adapted to receive and steady said clamping device in the beginning of the operation of braiding; third, of a rest or bridge which is capable of being swung into position for a doubling of the braided line over it when the same becomes necessary, and placed out of said position; fourth, of avertical rod which is centrally and axially located in the braiding-machine and has a hook both at its upper end and also on its side, the side hook being` to begin. .but showing said mechanism and fish-hook in adjustable vertically upon the rod and the rod attached to and also adj ustablc vertically on a treadle; and fifth, of a hook upon which to hang a completed braided gauge or snood, all substantially as and for operations substantiantially. as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying plates of drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a front view of the mechanism above referred to, showing the Sallie and a tishiiook and strands of the braiding mechanism as in position for the braiding of a gauge or snood Fig. 2 is a similar View to Fig. 1,

their position with the length of gauge or snood braided and just in position for the sobraided gauge to be doubled over to complete the making of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line 3 3, Fig. l. Fig. 4 isa similar view to Fig. 2, but showing the braided gauge aS doubled over and secured and the gauge as completed. Fig. 5 is a similar view to Fig. l, but showing a completed gauge as set to one side for its strands to be severed and placed through the eye ot' the hookto be neXt gauged and which is secured in theclam p therefor. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on line 6 6, Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a view of the gauge or snood complete with the fislrhook and a swiveleye attached.

rlhe location of the braidingmachine is indicated at A2, and as the braiding-machine and its takeup can be of any of the ordinary forms of construction and arrangement it is not deemed necessary to herein describe or illustrate them.

A is the braiding-point of a braiding-machine, and B the several strands which are to be braided, all meeting at said braiding-point A, and each running from a separate spool of the braiding-machine, all as usual.

C is the take-up roller or pulley of the take` y G is a clamp composed of two jaws, each carried by a leg, H, of the stirrup F, and adapted to clamp the stem or shank J of the {ish-hook K between them, and to be opened therefrom and closed thereon, the construction for this purpose consisting of a screw-operating rod, L,with a screw-nut, M,and collar N, and passing loosely through the heel ends O of the jaws of the clamp, Fig. 3.

l) l? are dowel-pins projecting from the under side of the clamp-jaws. These pins l? enter into sockets Q,suitably located therefor, of a horizontal platform, R. This platform is attached by a screw-bolt, S, passing through its vertical slot T, and by a screw-nut, U, to the upright face of a fixed standard,V, which is located at 011e side of the braiding-machine. This platform B has in its front edge,a,a slotted opening, b, of suitable shape for the shank erstem ofthe fish-hook K to be placed through it and in and between the clamp-jaws G, and so placed have the eye d of the hook below the platform,and located at the braiding-point A, the dowel-pins P of the clamp-jaws being then in the holes Q of said platform. The platform R is vertically adjustable on the supporting'standardto which it is attached,as described.

WV is a horizontal arm arranged to swing upon a stud as a center, that is fixed and; projects from the upper side of the platform R. One end,f, of this arm W is shaped so that when the arm is properly swung therefor it will make a bridge across the slitted opening b of the platform, and in front of the braided line,which extends upward through it in the operation of braiding, and thebridging end, f, is relatively situated so that, with the braiding end in front of the braided line, the other or hook end is back and out of the-way, and with said hook end h at the front of the platform the bridging end is away from the bridged line.

B`l is a vertical rod located in the central and vertical axis of the braiding-machine and in aline coincident with the braidingpointA. rlhis vertical rod B2 at its lower end sets into a post, C, of a treadle, C, and is adjustable in length therein,and as so adjusted secured with set-screw lc. The upper end, B, of this rod B2 is made of a hook shape, and the rod has an up-and-down adjustable collar, B, which is secured by a set-screw, l, to it, and it has a side hook or dog, B5.

To make a gauge or snood in accordance with this invention, using mechanism such as above described, in combination with the ordinary and take-up mechanisms of a braidingmachine, proceed as follows: First, place the shank or stem J of the hook K to have a gange or snood attached to it through the slit b of the platform B and enter it between the jaws of the clamp, which then tightly close upon it, taking care that the eye Z of the hook is at the braiding-point A of the braiding-machine (not particularly shown) and that the curved end or hook proper, K, stands across the gripping-surfaces of the clamp, Fig. 1. Now, take one half ofthe strands which the machine is to braid and those upon the same side of the machine and enter them at one side of the eye of the so clamped hook into and through said eye, and catch them upon the hook B3 at the upper end of the vertical rod B2, then at or about an inch and a half below said eye of the hook, and repeat this with the other half of the strands, but entering them, however, into the eye of the hook on the opposite side, Fig. 1. Now take up the slack in the strap D, connecting the clamp G with the take-up mechanism,and set the braiding and take-up mechanisms into operation, braiding about and around the strands so extended downward from the eye of the hook to the hooked end B3 of the rod B", and when sufficiently so braided to make said strands secure, having first stopped the machine, out and thus detach them from said hooked end and proceed with the braiding. As the braiding proceeds the takeup pulley C takes it up, and having secured the desired length of braided gange or snood, (see Fig. 2,) stop the machine, bring the braiding end fof the arm W across the slit ofthe platform B, and in front of the braided gauge, (see Figs. 4 and 6,) and, releasing the clamp G, take the fish-hook from it and bend the so braided length of gauge over the upper and front edges of said bridging-piece f, and catch the hook of the fish-hook on the hook or dog B5 of the collar B* of the vertical rod B2, suitably adjusted in height therefor, and for then holding the braided gange so doubled over at a tension, and proceed with the braid1 ing, which then takes place over and around the so bent-down braided gauge until suitable connection is secured and a loop, G2, formed in the: braided gauge, Fig. 4. Now stop the machine and remove the braided gange and place it by its loop O2, just previously made in the operation of the braiding-machine, upon the hook end h of the arm WV, iirst having properly swung s/aid arm therefor,and,having placed another iish-hook in the clamp-jaws,cut first one half and then the other half oi' the strands from the so suspended loop C2 and .place them in turn in the eye of the hook and attach them to the hooked end of the vertical rod, all as before described, and proceed as before, removing, after the strands have been cut and connected, as stated, the previouslycompleted gauge from the machine. (See Fig. 5.)

D3, Fig. 7, is a swivel-eye suspended by its eye from the loop C2 of the gange. If the eye of the swivel is too small to allow it to be passed over the eye of the ish-hook, the eye of the swivel is then placed horizontally under the eye of the iish-hook Yand the strands passed, as has been stated, in halves, each half rst up through the eye of the swivel, then through the eye of the fish-hook and down through the eye of the swivel to the hooked end B3 of the vertical rod B2, as described, and when 'the desired length of gange IOO is completed bend said gange over the edge of the bridge-piece of the arm, then in position therefor, and over the edge of the eye of the swivel, and thus in the continued braiding of the machine said swivel is secured in the loop C2 of the gauge then so formed. lf the, eye of the swivel is large enough to pass overthe eye of the hook,it may be placed in position to be secured to the gauge, as stated, after the braiding of the desired length of gauge is completed.

rIhe gauge or snood herein described may be made Without the application of the shlioolmising an eye or some other device about which to bend the strands to be braided. Again,the making of the loop GZ of the gauge may be dispensed With and the gauge may be used for other purposes than that particularly described.

In lieu of making the bridge-piece f and hook it on one arm,W,they may be on separate arms.

Having thus described my invention, I claiml. A gange or snood composed of separate strands at one end severally doubled or folded to form a loop or eye, and fastened in such loop form bya braid of the strands length- Wise around them, and which is continued for the desired length of snood, substantially as described.

2. A gauge or snood composed of separate strands at one end severally doubled or folded to form a loop or eye, and fastened in such loop form by a braid of the strands lengthwise around them7 and which is continued for the desired length of snood, and the strands at that end severally bent or doubled, and braided around said braided length of strands, and so braided and secured, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

H. H. MANSFIELD.

Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLoWs, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

